Diary of an up and coming sociopath

1. If your life were a movie, what would the title be?
If not “James Hunt: The Movie”, then it’d be “An Up and Coming Sociopath” (US Title: “Gunz, Bitchez & D@ Hood”)

2. What songs would be on the soundtrack?
I’m going to steal Relly’s idea and do a mix for this, it is just too perfect a question.

3. Would it be a live-action film or animated? Why?
Live action with CGI and animated segments. Why? Because I feel you’d need to use all 3 artforms to explore different aspects of perception. It’d be primarily Live-Action, with the animated/CGI bits being reserved for things like dream & fantasy sequences, action sequences, and things like that. I’d have those instead of stunts, in fact, whenever something was too hard to be done by a normal person, it would slip into CGI/cel shaded.

4. Casting: who would play you, members of your family, friends, etc?
Dave/Xama: CGI only (because I only see them on the ‘net)
James: Jason Lee, Because he makes sarcasm seem like a natural state,
or Matt Damon, because in the movies, that’s probably what I’d look like.
Josh: Kevin Smith/Silent Bob - Long hair, sage advice, and he’d appreciate the trench coat.
Nikki: Thora Birch - Cute and deadly.
Paul A: David Duchovney - Seems mysterious and enigmatic, like he’s always got something funny he’s keeping to himself
Paul R: Keanu Reeves - Reeves straddles the geek/cool line Paul often does.
Relly: Kate Hudson - Because the first few times I met her, I was always reminded of Kate Hudson’s character in Almost Famous.
Rob: Ed Norton - Violent, but restrained and articulate.
Sam: James Marsters - His portrayal of Spike shows that he can mix a bad attitude with genuine loyalty.
Si: Nicholas Brendon - He does the full range of emotion and comedy in a down-to-earth style.
and Optimus Prime as Himself.

5. Describe the movie preview/trailer.
* Black Screen: Dialogue - “I like it best when I’m asleep.” “Why, what do you see when you’re asleep?”
* Fade to me sitting in a chair, the camera zooms in to my pupil as I smile
* CGI/animated flyby of hell, thousands of people in torment and suffering, ending going into a dark tunnel, and back to live-action coming out of the other pupil
* me: “Justice.”
* V/O: “This summer, go beyond yourself into the mind of an Up and Coming Sociopath”
* Beneath voiceover, At the Drive-In’s “One Armed Scissor” playing, with a montage of shots from various points in my life designed to make things seem as interesting as possible, ending with Tyler Durden style insane laughter, and a repeat of the original shot of me in the chair, with CGI blood dripping off things..
* Fade to black with dialogue: “Want to hear what I think about when I’m awake?”

Obviously the trailer would be designed to make things look as action-packed as possible, when in fact the majority of the film would be set up as establishing shots and introspective camera angles at a ratio of 10:3 with Action Scenes.

Well, I can’t say that told you as much as some Friday Fives, but I certainly had fun doing it. Now to get some mixes sorted.